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The first Texas-based writer to gain national attention, J. Frank Dobie proved that authentic writing springs easily from the native soil of Texas and the Southwest. In best-selling books such as Tales of Old-Time Texas, Coronado's Children, and The Longhorns, Dobie captured the Southwest's folk history, which was quickly disappearing as the United States became ever more urbanized and industrial. Renowned as "Mr. Texas," Dobie paradoxically has almost disappeared from view-a casualty of changing tastes in literature and shifts in social and political attitudes since the 1960s.
In this lively biography, Steven L. Davis takes a fresh look at a J. Frank Dobie whose "liberated mind" set him on an intellectual journey that culminated in Dobie becoming a political liberal who fought for labor, free speech, and civil rights well before these causes became acceptable to most Anglo Texans. Tracing the full arc of Dobie's life (1888-1964), Davis shows how Dobie's insistence on "free-range thinking" led him to such radical actions as calling for the complete integration of the University of Texas during the 1940s, as well as taking on governors, senators, and the FBI (which secretly investigated him) as Texas's leading dissenter during the McCarthy era.
Contents
Acknowledgments
A Liberated Mind
Part 1: Rebel of the Lost Cause
Chapter 1: Along the Ramirenia
Chapter 2: The Education of a Brush Countryman, 1904-1912
Chapter 3: From Texas to New York, 1913-1914
Chapter 4: Fighting Conformity, Courting Bertha, 1914-1916
Chapter 5: The Great War, 1915-1919
Part 2: The Rising Star
Chapter 6: A Rangeland Epiphany, 1920-1921
Chapter 7: The Making of a Folklorist, 1921-1923
Chapter 8: The Rising Star, 1923-1926
Chapter 9: Voices of the Southwest, 1926-1930
Chapter 10: Regionalism Goes National, 1929-1930
Part 3: Mr. Texas
Chapter 11: Dobie in Bloom, 1930-1934
Chapter 12: Into Mexico, 1933-1935
Chapter 13: The Flavor of Texas, 1936
Chapter 14: The Austin Liberals, 1936-1938
Chapter 15: Apache Gold vs. Pale Horse, 1937-1939
Part 4: Texas Needs Brains
Chapter 16: The Longhorns, 1939-1941
Chapter 17: True Patriotism and the Singing Governor, 1940-1941
Chapter 18: The Liberal Hero, 1941-1943
Chapter 19: A Contemporary of Himself, 1943-1946
Chapter 20: A Texan in England, 1943-1946
Chapter 21: Texas Needs Brains, 1946-1947
Part 5: Elder Statesman
Chapter 22: Coyote Wisdom, 1948-1953
Chapter 23: Elder Statesman, 1951-1958
Chapter 24: Literary Dictator, 1952-1960
Chapter 25: End of an Era, 1955-1959
Part 6: Twilight
Chapter 26: One Touch of Nature, Plus, 1960-1962
Chapter 27: Sunset, 1962-1964
Chapter 28: Dobie's Legacy
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
